[70833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco HFR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Thu May 27 11:33:03 2004
To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>,
"Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: 27 May 2004 11:32:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: <06d301c443b6$4c5208d0$6401a8c0@alexh>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Macs and Lisas did this as well.
---Rob
"Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net> writes:
> I saw such technique in 1986 (approx) year on hardware level - russia
> computer Elbrus did it.
>
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>
> : Re: Cisco HFR
>
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> >
> > On Wed, May 26, 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> >
> > > Palm has taken an interesting approach to get rid of fragmentation: the
> > > OS is allowed to move (some) structures from one physical memory
> > > location to another. This only works if the processes that use this
> > > memory are written to support this, of course.
> >
> > Its not a new technique - if you allocate memory "handlers" rather than
> > addresses and ask the OS/Memorymanager to lock a handler in memory
> > (and give you an address) then the OS/MM is able to move around unlocked
> > memory blocks, even on/off disk, at whim.
> >
> > Win16 memory allocation looked like this, and I'm sure it was lifted
> > from something even older.
> >
> > Its not actually a bad idea in a single-process standalone application.
> > It certainly beats using a VM in this instance.
> >
> > Anyway, back to the network topics.
> >
> >
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> > --
> > Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if
> > <adrian@creative.net.au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.
> >
> >
> >
